Alexander's Cartographer
History, Geopolitics and Art across Eurasia | Writing a novel about Byzantine diplomacy | Essays and translations about Eurasian history
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"The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe of 1200 BC" by Robert Drews - Short Book Thread In the 12th century BC, the civilizations of the eastern Mediter...
The three best books on the 'Great Game' - Britain, Russia and China's competition for empire in Central Eurasia, are: "The Great Game" by Hopkirk "The Russian Conquest of Central...
Turkestan Series by Vasily Vereshagin - Painting Thread During Russia's conquest of Central Asia, Russia's greatest painter of Asia accompanied Russian armies during the most deci...
Sheng Shicai was one of the most interesting figures in modern Chinese history In the 1930's, Sheng ruled Xinjiang (Chinese Central Asia) as an autonomous warlord & later allied wi...
The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia - Book Thread Prior to their conversion to Buddhism, Tibet once ruled an empire which battled the Chinese & Turks for control over the Silk Road...